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| Jan 18, 2003 Wow, I've had an exciting month. W went in for a regularly scheduled test on January 7; ended up being hospitalized because of contractions; and early the next morning (Jan 8) delivered my second son by emergency caesarian-his. I'll call him P-2 (first son is P-1). He was born at thirty-one weeks and weighed in at 3.532 lbs. He's doing well and updates will be made available as he progresses to coming home to be with his mother and father. After a semester of ardently applying my intellect to nothing, I'm back in school. Classes have gone well thus far (I just finished the first week). I have a philosophy class on Wednesdays from 7:00 PM to 9:45 PM, which turned out to be somewhat disappointing. There was, however, a pleasant surprise. Only moments after entering the room, I turned to go put some pointless sticker I found in the stall of the men's room. My eyes immediately fell on those of a young olive-skinned man on the other side of the room. Fighting the urge to look away, as if I hadn't spent the last three eternal seconds gawking, I kept staring wonder where I had seen this person before. I was comforted by the fact that this person was equally engaged with myself. Suddenly, in the focus of our mutual gape, I realized I was looking at an old friend whom I had known since my early-mid teens. At his urging, I sat in front of him--adding a hint of luxury to an otherwise boring barrage of unending idiocy evacuating the minds of (what I dubbed) the pseudo-intellectuals in the class. I'm not sure exactly how to spell my old friend's name, but I think it is something like Dennerek. At any rate, he seemed do be doing well and I was glad to hear it. Though, when I inquired how the person he had last been romantically involved with, Den said with his mouth that he is around and doing fine; with other unconscious expressions, he let me know that the relationship had come to a close in the not so distant past, and that the emptiness is still felt from that long relationship. I quickly evaded the topic, not wanting to conjure any unwanted anguish. |